JJUA55087U International
Organizations - NOTE: THE COURSE IS CANCELLED IN THE SPRING
SEMESTER 2017

The course is divided into three parts. The first part
introduces the students to the main institutions at the global
arena. This part will review several major institutions, their
practice and history as well as the scholarship that studied their
behavior. The second part delves deeper into the insights provided
by the literature about the behavior of international
organizations. Unlike the first part, the second part will not
address each institution sequentially. Instead, it will review the
scholarship that tried to answer the main questions raised by the
practice of international organizations. The third part situates
international organizations in a global arena. It will study how
these organizations interact with each other and how the legal
landscape is shaped by their existence and
activity.

The goal of this course is to teach students about international
organizations. The organizations that will be examined include
international courts and tribunals, regional bodies such as the
European Union, global inter-governmental organizations such as the
United Nations, and Non-Governmental Organizations. The course will
focus on the power-play between the different institutions at the
global arena and will put special emphasis on the strategies
organizations apply as they rival to increase their impact and
influence.

Students will learn to identify the main international
organizations, to understand the way they work and the strategies
they apply, to explain prevailing phenomena in the global arena,
and to present their acquired knowledge and their own critical
thoughts on the issue in a clear and precise
manner.

Meeting 10 – Insights from International Relations
Theory
Anne-Marie Slaughter, International Law and International Relations
Theory: A Prospectus, in The Impact Of International Law On
International Cooperation – Theoretical Perspectives, 16 (Eyal
Benvenisti Moshe Hirsch ed., 2004). (34 pages)

The course is based on a
series of lectures by the lektor, which will build on reading
materials listed in the syllabus. Students are expected to read the
mandatory reading materials and to analyze them critically. The
classes will put a strong emphasis on discussions with the students
based on the material they read and the lectures they listened to.
In these discussions, students will acquire the skills of
understanding legal cases as well as academic work from diverse
methodologies, assessing the robustness and outcomes of this work
by applying interdisciplinary methods, and, just as importantly,
communicating their thoughts clearly accurately and concisely to
the class.

Criteria for exam assesment

Students are assessed based on the quality of their exams. This
quality is judged first, according to the demonstrated knowledge
and understanding of the mandatory reading materials and the
lectures taught during the course; second, according to the
analytic skills demonstrated by the exam with special emphasis on
the skills systematically developed during the course; and finally,
based on the ability to communicate these ideas accurately and
coherently.